Two sibling contractors convicted a decade ago for hacking into US Department of Homeland systems have once again been ...

Federal officials say two Virginia brothers used their contractor access to wipe government databases, steal sensitive files, ...

A recent dispute over an electronic database used in thousands of schools in the U.S. is a reminder of the precarious balance between access and censorship—especially now that more teachers and ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. We all know to be careful about the details we share online, but the information we seek can also be revealing. Search for driving ...

Sara Shaw, an elementary school teacher in Avon, Mass., realized she needed to teach online research skills several years ago when her students kept turning in projects riddled with misinformation.

When searching online databases, you often get too many or too few results. Identifying keywords or phrases and then connecting them using Boolean operators (AND, OR, and NOT), along with the other ...

A Cecil County sheriff's deputy faces 45 charges related to an investigation into unlawful law enforcement database searches linked to people he knew, according to the Maryland State Prosecutor's ...

Jason Eisenberg, Hannah Hughes, Ph.D. Many practitioners in sensitive technology areas file patent applications with non-publication requests or may abandon their applications if examination is not ...

Vector databases are all the rage, judging by the number of startups entering the space and the investors ponying up for a piece of the pie. The proliferation of large language models (LLMs) and the ...